Sunday, May 30, 2010

Have you heard about the pro-gun control doll, the one that resembles a Congressman?

You wind it up and it takes away your right to keep and bear arms - without any evidence or a unanimous verdict of guilty from a jury of your peers for the conviction of a felony crime.

No real due process of law would be required under a certain set of proposed bills pending in the current Congress.

All it takes is a "preponderance of evidence" under the proposed changes to the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the Brady Bill.

Not only that, but if the Attorney General sees it that way, you would not be allowed to make a request for the reasons you've been denied your Second Amendment rights.

Why? National Security.

Who knows, you could be a terrorist!

Might be. Could be. No telling.

Say what?

That's right. They don't even have to charge you or get an indictment from a Grand Jury. They just put your name on a list - and that's that.

It all goes back to 2004 when Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told the Justice Department's Office of Legal Policy to form a working group to review federal firearms and explosives laws as they apply to background checks.

You know the kind. The ones they do when the sales clerk calls a certain toll-free number back east and reads them your application over the phone?

The goal: Determine if the government should seek additional authority from Congress to prevent firearms and explosives transfers to known and suspected terrorists.

There is a matching bill in the House, H.R. 2159, authored by Rep. King.

The PROTECT Act would establish a national gun registry that would require record-keeping of gun transfers for ten years for anyone who is suspected of being a member of a terrorist organization, and 180 days for all other criminal background checks relating to firearms transfers.

In addition, there is the requirement for repeal of "certain provisions that require the destruction within 24 hours of identifying information for individuals who legally possess firearms."

All such determinations would be taken out of the court system and placed in the hands of the AG and the Justice Department.

Things did not progress too far back then, but never mind.

Now it's back again. The Congressmen mentioned above have re-introduced the same laws and they're up for consideration in the current Congress.

If it passes, you could go to the gun store to purchase a firearm and the clerk on the other end of the NICS line, the one who performs the Brady Bill check, could just say that you may not have a firearm. Don't sell the gun to this person.

There would be no reason given.

National Security.

There would be no appeal because your name is on a list and there is not telling why - at least, under these new laws, if they pass and the President signs the bills.

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